If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

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Charles de Montesquieu was a 17th-century French judge, historian, and political philosopher. Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia →

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